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Dunstan Times, Issue 3148, 18 December 1922, Page 8

One or two members of the Picton Road Board', assuming the role of amatour detectives, appear to have been making mucli ado about nothing (relates the Marlborough Express). It seems that a month or so ago a motorist who wae speeding Piotomvards struck a post and rail fence near Tna Marina und' knocked a post over- and ripping off one of his footboards, incidentally. Ever since, the hoard, working on one or two .small but uncertain clues, has been trying to discover the identity of the culprit. Tt wan reported by settlers that the car's number was such and such, but when the Awatere County Council was asked for the name of the owner it transpired that the man no longer owned the car. while the description of the car supplied by the county clerk was not- consistent with the reported' make of the car which was responsible for the trouble. The hoard at its last meeting admitted itself defeated. The inspector (Mr E. -I. Cridley) consoled the members liy telling them that the full repairs io (he fence did not costs more than Ms! He had used one old post. worth about eigbteenpencc, and the whole job had 1 taken about an hour's labor. Cowslip, :i non-pedigree Short hum cow. has broken the record with a milk vicld of 26.11511b for 3Go davs in England. A British I'liesian won the auctioneers' chief prize for dairy cows in Hetherington's Carlisle mart, in Scotland, and made £9O.